Restore Backup to alternative domain
When restoring a Backup of the domain it would be beneficial if you could restore it to a different domain.
There sometimes is the case that data has to be extracted from an old backup, but the current domain state can't be overwritten.
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It is very important to enable the feature of restoring a site to another site.
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digi impact commented
Yeah We definitely Need it
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Manuel Denk
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Its definetly a functionality that would have helped us out a few times before. I think for about 6 or 7 important websites for us this year alone.
So i would consider it a Critical feature that should be added as soon as possible. -
Rick Orford commented
Totally agree. today, I wanted to restore domain A.com to b.com to check a prior Wordpress configuration... and can't do it!
This is something that cPanel could do for 20+ years...
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Martin Allen commented
WHen restoring a Backup it would be beneficial if you could restore it to a different domain so as not to overwrite the existing domain.
This is particularly useful as it allows you to access database / files to see what has changed since the backup was created to help identify issues/errors, but doesn't destroy the curent domain in the process.
(our existing workaround at the moment is to manually backup the database and files - restore the backup - back this up manually and then recreate it in a new subdomain, then restore the first manual backup into the original domain again. This results in a required period of downtime on the domain though, depending on how long it takes to complete the process)